果冻影院

The Pilot (2023)

果冻影院 Health for the Public and 果冻影院 Public Policy supported six 果冻影院 researchers to undertake policy fellowships in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), as part of a pilot Research in Residence scheme.鈥�鈥�听

OHID, part of the Department of Health and Social Care, focuses on improving the nation鈥檚 health so that everyone can expect to live more of life in good health, and on levelling up health disparities to break the link between background and prospects for a healthy life. As part of DHSC, OHID brings together expert advice, analysis and evidence with policy development and implementation to shape and drive health improvement and equalities priorities for government. 果冻影院 Researchers spent four months working closely with OHID on projects addressing a range of OHID鈥檚 policy priorities.鈥�鈥�鈥�

What started as a 鈥渟mall seed to test a model鈥� turned into an opportunity for those involved to learn together and share knowledge.

Jennifer Yip, Executive at OHID, and supervisor to two projects, commented that the 鈥淸research has] exposed us to new ideas and freshness鈥�. Not only that, but the researchers鈥� ability to translate and present complicated information in many different formats for policymakers was seen by OHID as 鈥渋ncredibly powerful and helpful鈥�.

What has been most striking about the RIR is the opportunity for increased understanding and collaboration between research and policy with one fellow reflecting how it 鈥減rovided a different understanding of what research is and how collaboration can happen. Whatever you need to do need to be implemented in policy and practice鈥�.鈥�听听

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Project: Ethnic disparities in access to preventative services (e.g. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) health checks, screening) in London using integrated routine datasets

Researcher: Dr Louise Choo鈥�鈥�听
Supervisor:鈥� Dr Jennifer Yip鈥�听

Louise's project focused on maternity weight services and resulted in a wish list of priorities with OHID. She also contributed to CVD data summary discussions & worked with OHID analysts to look at summarising some of this data.鈥� As a follow up, further links have been created between OHID and 果冻影院 partners around GP records and cardiovascular disease, supporting OHID to do the analysis but in a different way.鈥�听

Output: Adult Weight Management Report by Dr Florence Sheen with contributions by Dr Louise Choo (not publicly available).鈥�鈥�听

Project: 鈥楻apid evaluation of London鈥檚 weight management programmes using mixed methods鈥欌��

Researcher: Dr Florence Sheen鈥�听
Supervisor: Dr Jackie Chin鈥�听

Florence鈥檚 project involved investigating (Tier 2) Weight Management Services (WMS) 鈥� which provide community-based diet, nutrition, lifestyle and behaviour change advice usually in a group setting 鈥� in London. By using qualitative focus groups and surveys, she examined barriers to delivering effective, equitable, and inclusive services. Insights were shared with members of the London Obesity Leads Network (LOLN) across two of their monthly meetings, and a report of their findings was distributed to the LOLN and London Local Authorities.

Output:听Florence Sheen 鈥� Office for Health Improvement &听Disparities (OHID), London region, 2023, 4 months

Project: 鈥楧evelopment of a monitoring and evaluation framework for London鈥檚 structural racism strategy and actions鈥�

Researcher:鈥� Dr Asta Medisauskaite and Dr Shoba Poduval (job share)鈥�听
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Yip and Professor Kevin Fenton鈥�听

Asta employed a mixed-method approach to explore inequality in the workforce. She produced a list of recommendations and interventions to address inequalities in the healthcare system.鈥�鈥�听

Asta commented,鈥樷�渋t was motivational to see [policy] interest but [also] have the opportunity to test and learn ideas and build connections and new relationships.鈥濃��鈥�听

Shoba conducted the first review of reviews of anti-racist interventions in the UK Healthcare system. Due to her work, Shoba has been awarded a NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement award, where she will be learning about data science and developing a proposal for longer-term research to address ethnic health inequalities.

Outputs:听

• Shoba Poduval, Office for Health Improvement & Disparities, London region, 2023, 4 months
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• co-authored paper published in the British Medical Journal.听

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Project: 鈥楿nderstanding the implementation of Family Hubs in London鈥�

Researchers: Dr Matthew Jay and Dr Claire Powell (job share)鈥�听
Supervisors: Robert Pears鈥�鈥�听

As part of their residency, they spoke with Local Authorities (LA) on different family hub journeys about the barriers they faced. From this, Jay and Powell identified that hyper-local and granular data was needed to help LAs distribute funding effectively and better understand the outcomes of family hubs.

Robert Pears, Consultant in Public Health, OHID, commented that their work on family hubs has imbued confidence on the topic and 鈥渨ill shape the strategic direction in public health for years to come.鈥濃��听

Output: Soon to be published.听

Ongoing

Project: Families and weight management听听
Researcher: Dr Emily Emmott听
Supervisor: Dr Jackie Chin and Leah de Souza Thomas听

Project: Review and prioritisation of interventions to tackle climate impacts on health inequalities in London.听
Researcher: Dr Valentina Amuso听
Supervisor: Julie Billett听

Project: Prevention of bacterial STIs in London听
Researcher:听 Dr Rebecca Irons听
Supervisor: Professor Kevin Fenton听
Outputs:

Project: Tackling Ethnic health inequalities through anti-racism approach: Lessons learnt and review of approaches in the UK听
Researcher: Dr Aradhna听Kausal
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Yip and Professor Kevin Fenton听